As you can tell, I have found a new love for painting camo. The top is supposed to be custom tiger stripe with an ABU ammo carrier, and Captain Deuce is supposed to be wearing Multicam. Though I think it's too dark for Multicam...

Gah! I promise I'll go back to working on "Overwatch" and "Can I Keep Him REDUX" sooon!

Lonely Op: Haha, thanks. Yeah, it's a Mk. 46, gathered from what reference I can find off the interwebs. I find this gallery very helpful. As for rendering form.... see the below picture. :P

Xion: I tried doing a sort of downward perspective, but I guess I exaggerated too much? Something for next time I guess.

An actual composition of that armor, and some testing of rendering the camo under different lighting conditions... didn't go so well. Thankfully they're on separate layers so I can try again later.

Something I dropped in the speedpaint thread.
EDIT: Tinypic lost this image, reuploaded.

Heraldry for Deuce's Crusader unit.

And another Overwatch composition test. Not so much overwatch now as random sniper in a building, but whatever. Shifted focus back to the sniper by rimlighting pretty much everything i could get away with.

Oddly enough, I DIDN'T spend much time designing equipment and stuff beforehand for these pages, unlike my previous habit of drawing up model sheets and whatever.

Time to fix that.

Shadow as she appears as an cameo/guest appearance in Angels vs. Demons. Tried to make her a lot more non-standard/special forces-like with the shemagh (though that's been part of her design for a while) and tomahawk, not to mention the Big Freaking Gun. Yay for the XM109 25mm "payload rifle", the recoil of which is described to be "beyond human limits".

Good thing Crusaders aren't completely human anymore.

Not quite done yet, though this was first intended to be a sketch. I liked it enough to flesh it out some more...

Also trying out value + silhouette first digipaints. So far, seems to result in less squiggly lines all over the place.

Do more of these. This is exactly the direction you need to be heading, if you're as interested in technical "realistic" sci-fi type things. Studies, studies, and more studies! I like this last post a lot, man. Keep it up.